Good Eats, Great Reads with Federal Documents!

As the holiday season approaches, it's the perfect time to explore delicious recipes and essential food safety tips. We invite you to check out these valuable federal publications that can inspire your culinary adventures and keep your family safe.

Discover Healthy Recipes

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plays a vital role in ensuring food safety, promoting healthy eating, and supporting nutrition programs. Check out these resources from USDA:

  • MyPlate.gov: A user-friendly guide to balanced meals, offering dietary guidelines to help you make nutritious choices.
  • USDA Recipes: A collection of healthy recipes designed to inspire meals for any occasion, from quick snacks to festive feasts.

Stay Informed for a Safe Holiday

This season, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also provides critical information to help you and your loved ones stay safe. Check out these resources from FDA:

Explore Our Federal Documents Display

This month, we’re excited to highlight a selection of fascinating books from our federal depository. These titles cover a range of topics from food safety tips to innovative recipes. Discover your next favorite dish or essential cooking tip today!

For a sneak peek at the books we have to offer, check out the booklist below:
 

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Healthy Eating Made Easy: Save Time and Money in the Kitchen

U.S. Department of Defense

A guide to increasing fruits and vegetables and ideas for budget friendly meals.

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Recipe and Meal Planner Guide/ Recetas y plan de comidas

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This cookbook offers a diverse range of easy-to-follow recipes and practical meal planning tips to streamline your cooking and grocery shopping. Featuring a bilingual design, each page includes recipes in both English and Spanish, making it accessible for a wider audience.

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Let’s Cook Fish: A Complete Guide to Fish Cookery

U.S. Department of Commerce

This cookbook explores the essential role of fish in both historical and modern contexts. It highlights how fishery products have long been a cornerstone of economic stability and a balanced diet. Emphasizing the versatility and cost-effectiveness of fish, the book demonstrates how these protein-rich foods can fit seamlessly into any budget. With straightforward preparation techniques and a variety of cooking methods, it offers practical guidance for incorporating fish into daily meals, making it a valuable resource for both historical insight and contemporary cooking.

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Complete Guide to Home Canning

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Home canning has changed greatly in the 170 years since it was introduced as a way to preserve food. Scientists have found ways to produce safer, higher quality products. The first part of this publication explains the scientific principles on which canning techniques are based, discusses canning equipment, and describes the proper use of jars and lids. It describes basic canning ingredients and procedures and how to use them to achieve safe, high-quality canned products. Finally, it helps you decide whether or not and how much to can. The second part of this publication is a series of canning guides for specific foods. These guides offer detailed directions for making sugar syrups; and for canning fruits and fruit products, tomatoes and tomato products, vegetables, red meats, poultry, seafoods, and pickles and relishes. Handy guidelines for choosing the right quantities and quality of raw foods accompany each set of directions for fruits, tomatoes, and vegetables. Most recipes are designed to yield a full canner load of pints or quarts. Finally, processing adjustments for altitudes above sea level are given for each food. This publication contains many new research-based recommendations for canning safer and better-quality food at home. It is an invaluable resource book for persons who are canning food for the first time. Experienced canners will find updated information to help them improve their canning practices.

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Quantity Recipes for School Food Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture

This publication contains quantity recipes and other information useful to food service personnel to prepare meals in schools participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). Recipes are generally in 50 and 100 portion size.

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Fish Cookery for One Hundred

U.S. Department of the Interior

This classic cookbook "Fish Cookery for One Hundred" features lots of recipes for fresh, frozen, and canned fish - for 100 people. It shows how to clean and dress a fish, the market forms of fish and shellfish, guides for buying fish, as well as specific information for these types of seafood: oysters, shrimp, clams, lobsters, crabs, and all kinds of fin fish. Recipes include 14 different fish sauces, stuffing’s, and garnish. This book has 53 recipes in all.

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